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Tertullian, on Eph 4:5
Tertullian · c. A.D. 150–220
Eph 4:5 · Douay-Rheims
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
On this verse:
“His only aim in alluding to it was) that he might all the more firmly insist upon the resurrection of the body, in proportion as they who were vainly baptized for the dead resorted to the practice from their belief of such a resurrection. We have the apostle in another passage defining "but one baptism." To be "baptized for the dead" therefore means, in fact, to be baptized for the body; for, as we have shown, it is the body which becomes dead.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.